I watched this on youtube without subtitles and so, being English, I did not understand a word of it. I've seen a few of the classic bad Turkish movies, like Turkish Star Wars, Homoti, Female Turkish Hamlet, Turkish Rambo, Turkish Dracula etc, and so incomprehension is not exactly a novel experience for me.
Mel-un, however is my first modern Turkish movie (from 2016), it's an exorcism themed horror effort and sadly, the power of Allah compels me to exorcise this lifeless exercise to Turkish Hell.
Set in a drab little village, a group of drab women sit about talking (Allah only knows about what), while the drab men-folk hang around the mosque. (One seemingly endless scene focuses on the men leaving the mosque one by one, slipping on their shoes and walking out of frame). A crazy old witch (who'd be great in Turkish Female MacBeth) mumbles and spits evil incantations, and the pretty daughter of one of the drab women becomes possessed.
This accomplished, the witch is seen no more - a shame, as she's the only fun to be had here), and the demon is loose in the village to do not very much really. She does rip a dog to pieces and sledgehammer an old drab's head in, but not in much style. The men spy on her in the graveyard whilst she performs some ritual on two of their pals apparently involving psychic removal of their hearts. The head guy reads a verse from the Koran and then suddenly Turkish Regan is chained up in a barn.
And that's where she spends the rest of the film, muttering in a ridiculous demon voice, whilst the disinterested remainder of the cast go through the ritualistic motions of the exorcism.
It's a lack of interest that runs all the way through the film. No one seems at all surprised or concerned about the presence among them of an ages old Demon, the women keep on chatting and the men keep hanging at the mosque. At one point someone's car breaks down. Ah, the demon must have done it. They complete their journey on foot, irrelevantly. The demon steps into the path of a girl, mumbles some demonic threat. The girl simply walks off.
Lame computer effects (aren't they all?) spray holy water and noxious gas all over the show to put the movie to bed with all the rotten cheapo modern horrors that give bad movies a bad name.
It could have been fun... but if you want a real Satanic Turkish delight, stick with Seytan (the Turkish Exorcist).
Mel-un, however is my first modern Turkish movie (from 2016), it's an exorcism themed horror effort and sadly, the power of Allah compels me to exorcise this lifeless exercise to Turkish Hell.
Set in a drab little village, a group of drab women sit about talking (Allah only knows about what), while the drab men-folk hang around the mosque. (One seemingly endless scene focuses on the men leaving the mosque one by one, slipping on their shoes and walking out of frame). A crazy old witch (who'd be great in Turkish Female MacBeth) mumbles and spits evil incantations, and the pretty daughter of one of the drab women becomes possessed.
This accomplished, the witch is seen no more - a shame, as she's the only fun to be had here), and the demon is loose in the village to do not very much really. She does rip a dog to pieces and sledgehammer an old drab's head in, but not in much style. The men spy on her in the graveyard whilst she performs some ritual on two of their pals apparently involving psychic removal of their hearts. The head guy reads a verse from the Koran and then suddenly Turkish Regan is chained up in a barn.
And that's where she spends the rest of the film, muttering in a ridiculous demon voice, whilst the disinterested remainder of the cast go through the ritualistic motions of the exorcism.
It's a lack of interest that runs all the way through the film. No one seems at all surprised or concerned about the presence among them of an ages old Demon, the women keep on chatting and the men keep hanging at the mosque. At one point someone's car breaks down. Ah, the demon must have done it. They complete their journey on foot, irrelevantly. The demon steps into the path of a girl, mumbles some demonic threat. The girl simply walks off.
Lame computer effects (aren't they all?) spray holy water and noxious gas all over the show to put the movie to bed with all the rotten cheapo modern horrors that give bad movies a bad name.
It could have been fun... but if you want a real Satanic Turkish delight, stick with Seytan (the Turkish Exorcist).
